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GEORGE S. CROSBY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,297, dated November10, 1885.

Serial No. 146,042. (No model.)

To all whom ii may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. CROSBY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the Same.

My invention relates to certain novel and useful improvements in toys,but more especially in toy vehicles and horses, and has for its objectto provide a simple and economical device of this description, and,furthermore, to greatly simplify the manner of attaching the horse tothe vehicle; and with these ends in view my invention consists in thedetails of construction and combination of elements hereinafterdescribed, and then set forth in the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertainsmay more fully understand its construction and operation, I will proceedto describe the same in detail, referring by letter to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 showsa side elevation of my im provement; Fig. 2, a detail perspective viewof the pivoted truck; and Fig. 3 a central vertical section takenthrough the truck and the hoof resting thereon.

Similar letters denote like parts in the several figures.

Ais any ordinary cart, and B the shafts. The latter have U-shaped lugsC, formed integral therewith and projecting upward therefrom. From eachside of the horse,near the flanks, is a pin projection, D, adapted toseat within the lugs C. These pins may be cast integral with the horse,or they may be driven within holes in the latter. Near the shoulders ofthe horse project similar pins, E,which are adapt ed to extendunderneath the forward extremities of the shafts and abut against thesame, thereby keeping the pins D in their position within the lugs C.

F is a truck, provided with wheels G at the sides, and with aperforation, H, at the central portion. One of the forward hoofs I ofthe horse is provided with a projection, J, adapted to enter saidperforation, as clearly shown at Fig. 3.

It will thus be seen that the device has'three points of support, noneof which offers any material frictional opposition to the ready movementof the device in any direction; also, the horse may be readily attachedto and detached from the shafts.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

1. In a toy horse and vehicle, the horse suspended from the shafts andwith one of the front hoofs swiveled to a rolling truck, substantiallyas shown and described.

2. The horse having pin projections D E, in combination with the shaftshaving U- shaped lugs C, substantially as set forth.

3. In a toy horse and vehicle, one of the front boots of the horsehaving a downward projection, and adapted to extend within a perforationin a rolling truck, substantially as shown and set forth.

4. The combination of the horse provided with lateral pin projections DE, and with projection extending downward from one of the front boots,with the shafts provided with U"- shaped lugs and the rolling truckhaving central perforation, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE S. CROSBY.

Witnesses:

S. S. WILLIAMSON, W. T. HAVILAND.

